My solution is to have this snippet in my vimrc. Don't ask me why this works. It's been years, and I had no issues with it. " System-agnostic setting makin

My solution is to have this snippet in my vimrc. Don't ask me why this works. It's been years, and I had no issues with it. " System-agnostic setting making the unnamed clipboard register act like " clipboard in any other editor. Copy with y commands, and paste with p or P. if has('unnamedplus') set clipboard=unnamedplus,unnamed else set clipboard+=unnamed endif Beside this, there is also the issue of setting paste when pasting in insert mode.